Timeline for Insulation options for narrow ceiling space
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| Jul 17, 2014 at 4:32 | comment | added | Graham Chiu | I have a fairly high stud, of 1.7m, so I guess creating a floating ceiling sandwiched with some insulation might be feasible, but not sure how expensive that might be. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 2:57 | comment | added | Hank | @wallyk: Nope, R value is a ratio but it's not unitless: it's the ratio of how much energy gets through a certain amount of area based on the temperature difference, in the US the units are ft2-°F-hr/BTU (and units for U value are the inverse). | |
| Jul 16, 2014 at 16:10 | history | edited | wallyk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2014 at 16:08 | comment | added | wallyk | @GrahamChiu: Whoa! I thought R values were dimensionless, and therefore universal. Sorry. | |
| Jul 16, 2014 at 6:47 | comment | added | Graham Chiu | Sorry, R 2.9 metric is equivalent to R 16.5 US | |
| Jul 16, 2014 at 5:21 | history | answered | wallyk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |